Booker T. Washington: “You cannot hope to succeed if you keep bad company.”

This country demands that every race shall measure itself by the American standard.

What is equally important, they are exhibiting a degree of common sense and self-control which is causing better relations to exist between the races, and is causing the Southern white man to learn to believe in the value of educating the…

By it a race must rise or fall, succeed or fail, and in the last analysis mere sentiment counts for little.

In the economy of God there is but one standard by which an individual can succeed—there is but one for a race.